Conference Questions Answered: Rounds 1-4
The Future League answers the important questions of each conference over the first four rounds of the season.
The Future League answers the important questions of each conference over the first four rounds of the season.
Of the four conference systems in the league, the NRL West shapes up to be the most fiercely contested of them all.
The NRL North conference hasn’t had a team represent them in the Grand Final since 2006. Will 2015 be the year the drought ends and the Provan-Summons Trophy travels back north?
Teams from the NRL East conference have raised the Provan-Summons trophy in three of the last four seasons, and there is every chance that 2015 will see history repeated.
2015 finds the teams of the NRL South at a collective crossroads. Their dominance of the turn of the decade is no more, but is a new era rising?
For a conference system to become a reality and a success for the NRL, there has to be a clear strategy for its implementation. The Future League identifies the key tactic to achieve this strategy.
As the NRL nears the end of its second decade of existence, it’s time for the code to ask itself where it wants to go next. The Future League has the answer: a conference system.